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U.S.-led forces in Iraq kill 9 in raid By RYAN LENZ, Associated Press Writer2 hours, 9 minutes ago U.S.-led forces raided a house near a volatile city northeast of Baghdad on Monday, killing nine people, including two children, the military said. The raid was staged in the area where terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed, and the military said the targeted terrorists had ties to senior al-Qaida leaders across Iraq and were involved in helping foreign fighters. Local residents accused the Americans of targeting civilians, and a man wearing a white dishdasha held up the charred body of a toddler whose head had been blown in half. The Iraqis screamed "Allahu akbar" or "God is Great" as they loaded two wooden coffins onto pickup trucks. AP Television News footage also showed the burned-out shells of vehicles and a devastated house with a large hole in the roof. The military said coalition forces received enemy machine-gun fire from a rooftop and two people with AK-47s had been seen fleeing the area just prior to the assault. "Coalition aircraft supporting the ground force immediately suppressed the enemy fire, killing seven," the military said in a statement. "Following the assault, coalition troops discovered two children had been killed. One child was wounded and evacuated for treatment." It also said three terror suspects were wounded and detained in the raid near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. Coalition forces seized rocket-propelled grenade launcher, five rockets, nine AK-47 assault rifles and 20 loaded ammunition magazines. The raid came as insurgents stepped up attacks in a bid to show they weren't defeated after al-Zarqawi's death in a U.S. airstrike near Baqouba on Wednesday. U.S. and Iraqi officials have promised a crackdown on violence and sectarian attacks. A suicide car bomber plowed into a gas station in northern Iraq, killing four civilians and wounding more than 40, police Brig. Gen. Abdul-Hamid Khalaf said. The explosion occurred about 1:15 p.m. in Tal Afar, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad. A bomb also struck a minivan of workers in southern Baghdad, killing six people and wounding 10, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said. Elsewhere, a roadside bomb detonated next to a police patrol east of Kirkuk, but missed and struck a civilian car. One person was killed in the explosion, two more were injured, police said. The deaths come as Iraqi and U.S. officials plan a security crackdown after al-Qaida vowed in a Web message last weekend to carry out "major attacks" to avenge al-Zarqawi's death. Officials hope his death will slow sectarian violence. On the political front, radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the resignations of three Shiite Cabinet ministers, saying they lacked the necessary qualifications and experience to run their ministries. Al-Sadr also accused at least one of them, the minister of state for provincial affairs Saad Tahir Abid, of having ties to Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime, officials said. Hassan al-Rubaie, a member of al-Sadr's bloc, said that Abid, the minister of state for tourism, Liwa Semeism, and Transport Minister Karim Mahdi already had offered their resignations and al-Maliki would decide whether to accept them over the next few days. In the United States, President Bush huddled with top advisers at Camp David to discuss a new strategy for Iraq, which would include reconstruction effort and curbing violence. Bush will talk with Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday. Together they hope to set a solid agenda for addressing security and repairing infrastructure like Iraq's electricity system that has led to dissatisfaction with U.S. forces. Estimates say Iraqis have between 30 minutes and two hours of electricity a day. Al-Maliki's new security team also has moved ahead with a plan to restore security in Baghdad, which has suffered most from suicide attackers, roadside bombs and sectarian death squads. The government will announce the plan in days. Iraqi and U.S. officials on Sunday released some 200 detainees from Abu Ghraib. Al-Maliki has promised to release 2,500 prisoners by the end of this month - a total that would be the largest since the U.S. led invasion in March 2003. Sunnis frequently complain of random detentions and maltreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government and the releases are seen as a key step toward dampening a Sunni-led insurgency. The discussions on security come after al-Qaida in Iraq insisted in a Web statement last weekend that it was still powerful after the death of Zarqawi. The statement said the group's leadership "renews its allegiance" to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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